{"id":684,"date":"2017-05-01T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universalhistories.org\/?p=684"},"modified":"2018-06-07T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:22:51","slug":"research-in-paris-musee-de-lhomme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/2017\/05\/01\/research-in-paris-musee-de-lhomme\/","title":{"rendered":"Research in Paris: Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog post by Sandra Kemp, Project PI at the V&A, and Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello, Paris!<\/p>\n

This week we are later with our usual blog update. The reason is that on Monday, we got on an earlier train to Paris for a full two weeks of archival research and exciting meetings there.<\/p>\n

We are investigating the case study of the Mus\u00e8e d\u2019Ethnographie du Trocad\u00e8ro, and are interested in tracing objects that were first displayed in this museum and are now, mostly, divided between the Mus\u00e8e du quai Branly and the Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme.<\/p>\n

On Monday, we were welcomed at the Gare du Nord by Herv\u00e8 Inglebert, the French PI of the project, and we spent the early afternoon discussing the progress of the research with him. Afterwards, we went to visit the Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme, where we will be found most often over the next few days.<\/p>\n

The Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme first opened in 1937, as the successor to the Mus\u00e8e d\u2019Ethnographie du Trocad\u00e8ro (MET). After several decades during which the display was not open to the public, the Mus\u00e8e finally reopened, completely renovated, in October 2015. The new permanent gallery deals with three main questions: Who are we?, Where we have come from? and What next?<\/p>\n

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Display in the Mus\u00e9e de l’Homme.<\/p><\/div>\n

We loved this new display, which merges collections and notions from physical anthropology, prehistory and ethnology. In terms of universal histories, this display challenges us to reflect on the history of the humanity and how people in different places developed different cultures despite starting with the same basic challenges: life, birth, death and the relationships of humankind with changing environments.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the temporary exhibition on racism was particularly interesting in highlighting prejudices and stereotypes, proposing a series of case studies that revealed the history of racism (studies on the idea of \u2018race\u2019, slavery in North America, Nazism and Rwanda\u2019s civil war) and offering data and insights on the current situation, especially in France.<\/p>\n

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Roof of the original Palace of Trocad\u00e9ro, built in 1878.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Tuesday, we continued our research and met the second French co-investigator, Andr\u00e9 Delpuech. When we started working on the project, Andr\u00e9 was the Head of Collections and Curator of Americas at the Mus\u00e8e du quai Branly, but he has now taken up his new role as Director of the Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme. We loved visiting him in his new office and getting a behind-the-scenes look at this museum!<\/p>\n

The Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme, administratively part of the Mus\u00e8e Nationale d\u2019Historie Naturelle, includes a large research department in which researchers from various institutions are hosted to develop their research drawing on the collections. These projects are showcased on rotation in the central Balcony of the Mus\u00e9e, a great way to make the research process visible to the public.<\/p>\n

Our time in Paris continues with more meetings and more collections to research, so we will post another update soon!<\/p>\n

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Display in the Mus\u00e9e de l’Homme.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blog post by Sandra Kemp, Project PI at the V&A, and Chiara Zuanni, postdoctoral researcher at the V&A. Hello, Paris! This week we are later with our usual blog update. The reason is that on Monday, we got on an earlier train to Paris for a full two weeks of archival research and exciting meetings … Continue reading Research in Paris: Mus\u00e8e de l\u2019Homme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10,13],"tags":[18,30,33,38],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exhibition","category-paris-history","category-universal-histories-and-universal-museums","tag-archives","tag-musee-de-lhomme","tag-paris","tag-trocadero","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Q5ty-b2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/universalhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}